3 This is part of the YARRG website. YARRG is a tool and website
4 for assisting players of Yohoho Puzzle Pirates.
6 Copyright (C) 2009 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
7 Copyright (C) 2009 Clare Boothby
9 YARRG's client code etc. is covered by the ordinary GNU GPL (v3 or later).
10 The YARRG website is covered by the GNU Affero GPL v3 or later, which
11 basically means that every installation of the website will let you
14 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
15 it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
16 published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
17 License, or (at your option) any later version.
19 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
20 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
21 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
22 GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
24 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
25 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
27 Yohoho and Puzzle Pirates are probably trademarks of Three Rings and
28 are used without permission. This program is not endorsed or
29 sponsored by Three Rings.
32 This Mason component generates the introduction.
36 <html><head><title>YARRG (Yet Another Revenue Research Gatherer)</title>
39 <a href="lookup">YARRG</a> -
40 Yet Another Revenue Research Gatherer
44 <a href="docs">documentation</a>
46 <h1>Introduction to YARRG</h1>
48 YARRG (Yet Another Revenue Research Gatherer) is a third-party tool
49 for helping find profitable trades and trade routes in Yohoho Puzzle
50 Pirates. It was inspired by
51 <a href="http://pctb.crabdance.com/">PCTB</a>.
55 The system has two main parts: this website which maintains a
56 searchable database of commodity prices, and an upload client, which
57 screenscrapes the commodity data from the Puzzle Pirates game client
58 and uploads it to the database.
60 <h2><a href="lookup">Market prices database</a></h2>
62 The <a href="lookup">lookup page</a> gives access to the uploaded data;
63 there is also <a href="docs">documentation</a> to help with using that
66 <h2>Uploading from Linux</h2>
68 The YARRG upload client uploads both to YARRG and to the
69 <a href="pctb.ilk.org">PCTB testing server</a>.
73 The current official version of YARRG for use as an upload
74 client can browsed here:
75 <a href="/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/">http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/</a>
77 <a href="/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/yarrg/README">YARRG README</a>.
80 To install the client, install the `git' version control system
81 and the other dependencies listed in the `Installation requirements'
82 section of the README and then run:
84 git-clone http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/.git ypp-sc-tools
89 this will download the code into the directory <code>ypp-sc-tools</code>,
90 and build the software.
94 When new versions of the upload client are released, you can:
101 to fetch the new version.
103 <h2>Uploading from Windows</h2>
105 There is not currently an upload client for Windows which feeds data
106 into YARRG. It would probably be straightforward to modify the
107 Windows PCTB v5 upload client to upload to YARRG as well. The
108 mechanism and format for uploading is documented in
109 <a href="/~ijackson/ypp-sc-tools/master/yarrg/README.devel">README.devel</a>.
111 <h1>YARRG development, contribution and troubleshooting</h1>
113 <h2>Free Software (aka Open Source)</h2>
115 YARRG is Free Software - you may share and modify it. See the
116 licences for details.
120 Not only the client but also the webserver code is Free. The website
121 code can be found in the same tree as above, in the <code>web</code>
126 But in case we have made changes but not yet pushed them
127 (perhaps because we haven't done a release), and to make it easy for
128 anyone else who runs a copy of the website to provide everyone with
129 the source for their version, the website code itself lets you download
130 an up-to-date <a href="source.tar.gz">tarball</a> of its
131 actually-running source code.
135 If you would like to run a (perhaps modified) copy of the YARRG
136 website it would be very easy for us to make our system send you
137 copies of updates submitted by users of the official YARRG client, in
138 the format expected by the code you'll be running. Please just ask
141 <h2>Contacting the YARRG developers</h2>
143 Email Ian Jackson ijackson (at) chiark.greenend.org.uk. Or talk to
144 any Fleet Officer or above of the crew Special Circumstances on the
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